Despite trailing by five points during their Leinster championship tie with Edenderry, Rathnew’s Leighton Glynn said they never thought they were beaten.
The Wicklow champions overturned a four-point half-time deficit and held the Reds, who beat Rhode in the Offaly final two weeks ago, to just two points in the second half as they recorded a 0-12 to 0-11 win in Tullamore to book a date with St Loman’s of Westmeath in the quarter-finals.
The former Wicklow county star told RTÉ Sport: “Edenderry had more of the play in the first half. The only thing that was in our favour was the bit of downhill in the pitch and a bit of a breeze so four points wasn’t too bad.
“We got going earIy. I think we kicked three in a row in the first five minutes of the second half so that got us right back into it.
“We were still confident enough. We knew we had that bit of a breeze and we knew we could kind of squeeze them in their own half on the kick-out.
“We had bigger men in midfield and that really worked for us for the first 10 minutes and that gave us a platform then and we played with a bit more confidence.”
